Fiona Tan Coming Home

Fiona Tan is a leading international artist. Born in Indonesia, she grew up in Australia and now lives and works in the Netherlands. Tan is well known for her film-based installations, archival constructs and photographic works that explore and interrogate collective memory, and the construction of identity. Grand in scale, acutely intimate in observation, the works of Fiona Tan demand both space and time to absorb, to reflect and to distil the richness of their visual examination and meaning and to situate our own experience in relation to them. This stylish exhibition catalogue marks Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation's (SCAF) presentation of Fiona Tan: Coming Home. Two Sydney venues each are hosting a separate body of work. Disorient, 2009, first shown to great acclaim in the Dutch Pavilion at the 53rd Venice Biennale is screening at SCAF and A Lapse of Memory, 2007, is being shown at the National Art School, Darlinghurst.